Test 12

Question 1

When adding,/subtracting significant digits, the answer should have the same number of decimal places as the number with the ______ decimal places.

Answer 1

fewest

Question 2

What law states that the velocity of an object does not change unless the object is acted upon by an external force?

Answer 2

first law of motion

Question 3

What law states that if the pressure of a gas is constant, the gases volume and temperature are directly proportional?

Answer 3

Charles’s law

Question 4

What is energy associated with the position of an object and the forces acting upon it?

Answer 4

potential energy

Question 5

What is the general term for the process by which heat flows through materials and between objects in direct contact?

Answer 5

conduction

Question 6

What is the maximum distance that particles are displaced by a wave?

Answer 6

amplitude

Question 7

What is the strength of a sound wave?

Answer 7

intensity

Question 8

What is perceived when all colors of visible light are mixed?

Answer 8

white

Question 9

What consists of extremely high-frequency electromagnetic waves produced by reactions in the nucleus of an atom?

Answer 9

gamma rays

Question 10

What is the phenomenon in which an object’s colors are produced by interference and depend on the viewing angle?

Answer 10

iridescence

Question 11

According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, what quantities are affected by gravity?

Answer 11

time and length

Question 12

What law states that the strength of the attraction or repulsion between two charged objects is directly related to the strength of the charges and inversely related to the square of the distance between them?

Answer 12

law of electric force

Question 13

What is the term for a substance with no unpaired electrons?

Answer 13

diamagnetic

Question 14

What type of lamp produces light by passing an electric current through a long tube filled with a low-pressure mixture of mercury vapor and argon?

Answer 14

fluorescent lamp

Question 15

What is a device that increases or decreases the voltage of alternating current using electromagnetic induction?

Answer 15

transformer

Question 16

What is a simple vacuum tube that uses a negatively charged filament and a positively charged plate to allow current flow in only one direction?

Answer 16

diode

Question 17

What is a substance that alters the rate of a chemical reaction without being permanently changed or consumed in the reaction?

Answer 17

catalyst

Question 18

What is an insoluble substance that forms (falls out) during a chemical reaction?

Answer 18

precipitate

Question 19

What is a diagram showing the locations of all the atoms and valence electrons in a molecule?

Answer 19

Lewis structure

Question 20

A type of circuit arrangement with current divided among its separate branches is a _______ circuit.

Answer 20

parallel

Question 21

What device converts pulses of electricity into sound waves?

Answer 21

loudspeaker

Question 22

The Latin phrase meaning “out of nothing” is ______.

Answer 22

ex nihilo

Question 23

Any device used to store an electric charge is a ______.

Answer 23

capacitor

Question 24

What process releases an enormous amount of heat and gamma rays as a substance is split into several pieces?

Answer 24

nuclear fission

Question 25

What type of formula shows only the simplest ratio of atoms in a compound?

Answer 25

empirical formula

Question 26

What is a chemical reaction in which a single compound breaks down to form two or more different substances?

Answer 26

decomposition

Question 27

What type of electrochemical cell is designed to have the reactants continually replenished from an outside source?

Answer 27

fuel cell

Question 28

What type of hydrocarbon contains one or more double bonds between carbon atoms?

Answer 28

alkene

Question 29

What is the group of biological compounds characterized by insolubility in water?

Answer 29

lipids

Question 30

What is the philosophy that asserts that nothing is knowable outside the natural world?

Answer 30

secular humanism

Question 31

What is the idea that God used evolution to make everything in the world?

Answer 31

theistic evolution

Question 32

What is the process by which DNA is copied?

Answer 32

replication

Question 33

What hypothesis is the most commonly accepted view of the origin of the matter and energy of the universe?

Answer 33

big bang

Question 34

What idea uses scientific observation alone as evidence that there must be a designer for the universe?

Answer 34

intelligent design

Question 35

What is the study of science as it relates to the origins of the universe and of life based on faith in God as Creator?

Answer 35

Creation science

Question 36

What is the false belief that natural processes have always occurred in the same manner and at the same rate that they do now?

Answer 36

uniformitarianism

Question 37

With the addition of the ideas of genetics to Darwin's ideas, what is the most accepted description of biological evolution?

Answer 37

Neo-Darwinism

Question 38

The memory that a computer uses to store information temporarily is ______.

Answer 38

RAM

Question 39

A chemical bond resulting from the sharing of valence electrons between atoms is a _______.

Answer 39

covalent bond

Question 40

Smaller particles that compose protons and neutrons are _______.

Answer 40

quarks

Question 41

The intermolecular force that occurs between all molecules is the _________.

Answer 41

London force

Question 42

The process of mixing molecules of one substance with those of another substance by random molecular motion is ________.

Answer 42

diffusion

Question 43

A base that only partially ionizes in a solution to produce hydroxide ions is a ______ base.

Answer 43

weak

Question 44

What type of intermolecular force is present only between polar molecules?

Answer 44

dipole-dipole force

Question 45

What are the building blocks of proteins?

Answer 45

amino acids

Question 46

What law indicates that the universe in not improving but is instead running down?

Answer 46

second law of thermodynamics

Question 47

What is the average mass of all the natural isotopes of an element?

Answer 47

average atomic mass

Question 48

What is the principle that states the total mass of the reactants is equal to the total mass of the products?

Answer 48

law of conservation of mass

Question 49

What is a single piece of semiconductor containing an entire electronic circuit?

Answer 49

integrated circuit

Question 50

What system allows a computer to store programs and information?

Answer 50

memory

Question 51

What is the "working copy" of genetic information?

Answer 51

RNA

Question 52

prominent creationist lecturer during the 1920's and 1930's

Answer 52

Harry Rimmer

Question 53

naturalist who published Origin of Species in 1859

Answer 53

Charles Darwin

Question 54

coauthored The Genesis Flood with Dr. John Whitcomb

Answer 54

Dr. Henry Morris

Question 55

known to be Creation science's "bulldog"

Answer 55

Dr. Duane Gish

Question 56

wrote The New Geology in support of the Flood as described in Genesis

Answer 56

George McCready Price

Question 57

attempted to reproduce abiogenesis by mixing methane, ammonia, and hydrogen while carefully excluding oxygen

Answer 57

Stanley Miller

Question 58

authored Principles of Geology, which introduced the idea of uniformitarianism

Answer 58

Charles Lyell

Question 59

scientist known for his invention of the telegraph

Answer 59

Samuel F. B. Morse

Question 60

made important contributions to the fields of magnetism and electricity and invented the first electroscope

Answer 60

William Gilbert

Question 61

What type of metal is very soft, has a low melting point, and is not in a pure elemental form?

Answer 61

alkali metal

Question 62

No part of the system is useful unless the other parts are present

Answer 62

irreducible complexity